smoker price question

Stop by a applience store ask for a few old oven racks, I had to promise fish for mine. build a plywood box that both racks well fit in with a little room at the bottom for one of them electric burners like you take camping, next go to a thrift store, and get a non-teflon coated pan, the ones that come in the boyscout cooking kit work great(put your wet chips in it). drill a few holes in the top in one of the holes place a turkey term. the hole thing for under 20 bucks (if you recycle wood)....one thing to note the door must be a slide type or to much smoke escapes, the great thing about a all wood smoker is the ease of controling the heat. the burner has a heat setting and the wood holds heat better then the little chief. I bilt mine with the plywood on the inside of the frame, this way the 4 2x4's that make up the corners are extended bigger then the box so I have legs that bring it up to waist level, I painted it up and is now in its 3 year of service, I have to replace the burner this year, but if I find a bigger pan it would have lasted longer the fish drip salty water into the rim and now the knod dont work, it still heats but looks bad so I well replace it....DJ